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New Diasporas

By Nicholas Van Hear

Race Conflict and International Order: From Empire to United Nations

By Hugh Tinker

Christian Communities in the Arab Middle East: The Challenge of the Future

By Andrea Pacini (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, Turin, Italy)

Emergence of African Capitalism

By John Iliffe

In the Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeology

By Brian M. Fagan

Mothers and Their Children: A Feminist Sociology of Childrearing

By Jane Catherine Ribbens

Religion in the Contemporary World

By Dr. Alan Aldridge

In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio

By Philippe Bourgois (San Francisco State University)

An Introduction to Global Citizenship

By Nigel Dower

The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media

By Peter Steven

Understanding Social Problems: Issues in Social Policy

By Margaret May, Robert Page (University of Leicester), Edward Brunsdon (London Guildhall University)

Comparative Social Policy: Concepts, Theories and Methods

By Jochen Clasen (Stirling University)

Policy

By H Colebatch

Focus Groups in Social Research

By Michael Bloor, Jane Frankland, Michelle Thomas, Kate Stewart

New Politics of the NHS

By Klein, Prof Rudolph

Comparative Health Policy

By Robert Blank (Professor of Public Policy, Brunel University), Viola Burau (Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Aarhus, Denmark)

Social Policy in Britain

By Pete Alcock

The Health Care Policy Process

By Carol E Barker

Social Exclusion

By David Byrne

Welfare States in Transition: National Adaptations in Global Economies

By Gosta Esping-Andersen

Understanding Social Statistics

By Jane L. Fielding, Nigel Gilbert

The Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy

By Pete Alcock (University of Birmingham), Angus Erskine (University of Stirling), Margaret May (London Metropolitan University)

Classical and Modern Social Theory

By Heine Anderson (University of Copenhagen), Lars Bo Kaspersen (University of Copenhagen)

Birth By Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe

By Raymond De Vries, Cecilia Benoit, Edwin van Teijlingen, Sirpa Wrede

Ritual and Remembrance: Responses to Death in Human Societies

By Jon Davies

Evaluating Social Work Effectiveness

By Juliet Cheetham, ROGER FULLER, Gill McIvor, Alison Petch

The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

By Noah Feldman

The Perfect Day: 40 Years of "Surfer Magazine"

By Sam George

Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health

By Marion Nestle

Secure Accommodation in Child Care: 'Between Hospital and Prison or Thereabouts?'

By Robert Harris (University of Hull, UK), Professor Noel W Timms, Noel Timms